Bill Text: TX HB2980 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to the award of grants by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board to increase the availability of clinical education practice sites for certain nursing students.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-04-26 - Committee report sent to Calendars [HB2980 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB2980-Comm_Sub.html
86R24344 MM-F | |||
By: Howard | H.B. No. 2980 | ||
Substitute the following for H.B. No. 2980: | |||
By: Howard | C.S.H.B. No. 2980 |
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relating to the award of grants by the Texas Higher Education | ||
Coordinating Board to increase the availability of clinical | ||
education practice sites for certain nursing students. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter Z, Chapter 61, Education Code, is | ||
amended by adding Section 61.96234 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 61.96234. GRADUATE NURSING EDUCATION GRANTS. (a) | ||
Under the professional nursing shortage reduction program, the | ||
board may award graduate nursing education grants to institutions | ||
of higher education with a graduate professional nursing program to | ||
fund innovative approaches to increasing the availability of | ||
clinical education practice sites for graduate professional | ||
nursing students. | ||
(b) The board shall require an institution of higher | ||
education that receives a grant under this section to submit | ||
periodic reports describing the outcomes of the activities funded | ||
through the grant. | ||
(c) The legislature may appropriate money for purposes of | ||
this section. The board may use funds appropriated for the | ||
professional nursing shortage reduction program and funds returned | ||
to the board under Section 61.96232(e) for purposes of this | ||
section. | ||
(d) The board shall adopt rules for the administration of | ||
this section. | ||
(e) Not later than November 1 of each even-numbered year, | ||
the board shall submit to the legislature a report regarding the | ||
outcomes of the activities funded through the graduate nursing | ||
education grants awarded under this section. | ||
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. |